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Even if you could save the cost of a satellite TV subscription you would eat through so much cellular data you would be begging to pay for satellite TV. You can get by with just your OTA TV antenna if you camp near cities and don't care about much else other than ABC., NBC, CBS, FOX. If you want more, you need satellite TV. Keep your cell phone data available for your internet needs and life will keep a pretty good balance.

WOW! No, that's not what my coach looks like or ever looked like. The original paint job is similar (done by Prevost before being shipped to the converter) and the dash looks similar but that's about it. The 50 amp transfer switch for shore / generator is a large (not 4" square) box with 3 relays 2 input / 1 output with a built-in delay for the generator. The power for the Inverter does not have anything to do with this box as it simply sends either shore power or Generator power to the 120V breaker box. From the breaker box power is supplied to the Inverter when plugged into shore power or running the genset and this power is "passed-through" the inverter to the 2 dedicated lines connected to the inverter. If no shore/generator power is available the inverter inverts and supplies 120V power to those same 2 dedicated lines from the battery bank.

Likely issues with the previous software debacle! I had to contact support as I could not get logged in at all after the site was down for so long. They had to give me a new temp password so I could log-in and reset to a new password.

It's a great place to stop but it may not be a great place to stay. It's really out of the way unless you really NEED to visit Livingston. Normal drives do not include passing "through" Livingston but rather by-passing Livingston. If that's where you want to end your day then it's a great stop but something like 15 minutes off the highway to the campground.

Call the toll free number to a company that has been out of business for so, so many years? Or did you mean call the company that does not make the ATS pictured in the diagram they show? I bought the Go Power transfer switch and that's not how the "new" version is setup despite everything they showed online. Wait, that can't be right! If it's on the internet it must be true!

Todd Engineering was the original ATS but they went out of business years ago. This coach is a factory original 50 amp coach. There is no 12V breaker panel or fuses that I am aware of (interesting, I had to think about that). There might be some resettable 12V fuses in another box but it's never been opened. The transfer switch consisted of 2 separate relays each of which had an input for shore power leg 1 and leg 2 and neutral leg1 and legs 2, input for inverter leg 1 leg 2 and neutral leg 1 and leg 2 both relays worked simultaneously to transfer both inverter outputs and both. You can go here http://gpelectric.com/products/50-amp-transfer-switch and click on the link to manual on the right side. That's what the old transfer switch looked like and how it functioned. It's on page 6. Diagram 1, setup on the left and below that, Configuration C.

Herman, That was my question. If this coach is brand new and had all of those problems, how is it that he ever took delivery! If he took delivery without any kind of PDI or self inspection it's hard to imagine the problems he must now be dealing with to get things fixed.

I believe you would have a much better experience towing the Jeep 4 wheels down. The trailer adds an awful lot of unnecessary weight and sometimes you won't be able to park the trailer where the RV is parked adding additional inconvenience. Hooking and unhooking a towed vehicle takes less than 5 minutes. The same can't be said for trailering a vehicle especially if you have to go get the trailer first!

Give this site a try. http://www.inspection.gc.ca/food/information-for-consumers/travellers/what-can-i-bring-into-canada-/eng/1389648337546/1389648516990

I called and left a message and I e-mailed them with no response.

The Winegard is a much better product but you would have to eat the cost of the Tailgater. If you can get any help from King Dome on your Tailgater this might be your best (least expensive) option.

Good luck with that! First, why are you wanting to bookdock and second where on the East Coast are you hoping to do so? We lived in VA and traveled extensively on the East Coast. That is to say we traveled from RV park to RV park on the East Coast other than our stays at Flying J's.

There really is not a lot of advice needed here. You have a clean fresh water system and you have 2 other tanks that don't need any maintenance. What they do need is proper use. Keep both valves closed until the black tank is about 3/4 full. Dump the black and when that's complete, dump the grey. Close both valves and you don't need to do anything else until the black is 3/4 full again. If you happen to take really long showers you might have to dump the grey once between black dumps but that's OK, too. Just be sure to close all valves when you are not in the dump process.

But then again, you really don't know his background and you don't seem to be able to explain why the transfer switch would resolve the problem. I also changed the wiring at the time I removed the transfer switch so it's trying to figure out whether it's simply the wiring choice that I made or the transfer switch. I cannot find a similar transfer switch anywhere so one additional concern is that even if I install a new transfer switch it will still not give me the same isolation that was available from the previous unit.

The person who told me to remove the (dead) transfer switch is a very knowledgeable RV person. He builds generators and it is his generator installed in my coach. The inverter is no longer made and needed replacement. It was his suggestion that I simply remove it as it was installed in a time when the inverter was an inverter only and there were separate battery chargers. I suspect the inverter did not even do a pass-through back in the 80's.

Whew! Mirror not working.....I was concerned you could no longer see yourself. Too many vampires lurking around already. Didn't need another!

Ernie did my coach as well but I am sorry to say that it would be quite a drive from the St. Louis area. Hopefully, someone will be along with some more helpful information for your area.

How are you changing from a Queen to a King? Where is all that extra room coming from. Are you both short enough to deal with an RV Queen/King or do you plan to make enough room for a full sized mattress?

You can buy an older Prevost for under $200,000 and you will have the best ride and handling available. Their are 40 and 45 footers both with tags. At that budget it will likely only have 2 slides max. but that will be plenty of room if the coach was laid out properly. It will last forever and if you plan to full time for 2-4 years you will get a higher resale value down the road.

Love insightful posts. Thanks.

Just as an additional clarification, I used some wrong terms so let me see if I can clarify. This coach has 50 amp SERVICE. As you are aware that means I have 2 HOTS coming into the coach plus the neutral and ground. This wiring goes to a transfer switch (generator and shore) and then to a standard breaker panel where there are 30 amp and 20 amp breakers. The wires leaving these breakers go to all of the outlets in the coach (the 30 amp circuits are A/C only) so I have 20 amps available on each of the 3 wire lines running to the inverter. If I exceed 20 amps draw on any line it simply trips the circuit breaker. As Brett mentions, the neutral and grounds are all connected to their respective bus bar in this breaker box. The setup works fine for a few months and then for no reason at all the unit shows the A/C short fault and is dead. The rep. says this is an A/C feedback problem and I am using the same 2 output lines that the manufacturer installed oh so many years ago. I did change from a 2000W to a 3000 W inverter but it worked fine until my transfer switch went bad and I was advised that a separate transfer switch was not required since the new inverters have their own transfer switch. So, if it's A/C feedback, does that mean that somehow there is A/C current on the D/C line or that somehow there is A/C being sent to the output side of the inverter (backfeed?) somehow? This happened while the coach was plugged into shore power, with the inverter set to "on" but not being utilized. The battery charger did it's job, went through the 3 charge modes and was in "float" as it should have been. As I mentioned, the 2 lines that leave the inverter do not get any power if there is not an inverter in the loop (or directly wired as they are now to the same 2 lines with the inverter removed). I only mention the feedback thing as I am trying to figure out what a transfer switch might have eliminated that keeps blowing up my new inverter.

Maybe you could look at the owners manual from the links I posted (did I post it here?) Nothing in my coach ever sees 240V so I don't see how the inverter could. Yes, there are 2 120V hots that, if measured between the 2 show 240V but no circuit in the coach has access to 240V. There are simply 2 legs of 120V. If anything in this coach got hit by 240V it would blow itself to pieces! http://www.kisaepower.com/products/abso-inverter-chargers/abso-inverter-chargers-low-frequency/model-ic-1230150/ IC-High-Power-Low-Frequency-Series-REV-B.pdf

If you blow it up and look closely you can see both arms of the tow bar.

During the last failure the coach was plugged into the same 50amp service for the entire time from the time we replaced it and the time it gave up the ghost. Even if I was plugged into a 30 amp circuit I believe the inverter would see the same circuit as the inverter never sees 240 but rather 2 120V lines which is what it would still see on a 30 amp circuit.

No, the engine start circuit is 24V but the rest of the coach is 12V. All of the incoming power be it shore or generator goes to a transfer switch and that power is sent to a home style circuit breaker panel. This is where the power going to the inverter comes from. This is where all the 120V power in the coach comes from. The main transfer switch has the same setup for shore or generator. 4 wire red/black hot, white neutral and bare copper ground. If I power up the generator it will default to generator power after a short delay to ensure the genset is up to power. The inverter powers 2 dedicated circuits that do not get power from anywhere unless it is going through the inverter either using shore power and the inverter by-pass option or coming from the inverter while no power is available and the inverter is inverting.